Abstract:The works of Peter Sterry (1613–72) vividly evoke the intellectual world of a Cromwellian chaplain during the Puritan triumph and after. His letters, treatises, poems, and sermons reveal the altered sensibilities, imagination, and language of post‐Interregnum nonconformism. They re‐evaluate Puritan failure and, through a detailed account of nonconformist life, establish a transformed ideology of community. Sterry's corpus as a whole reflects on a variety of religious and artistic themes – eschatology, ‘Christ … Show more
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